"Once you get out, you lose everything" : women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya /

"Once you get out, you lose everything" : women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nnoko-Mewanu, Juliana, author.
Imprint:	[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2020] ©2020
Description:	1 online resource (64 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Married women -- Kenya -- Economic conditions. Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Kenya. Marital property -- Kenya. Right of property -- Kenya. Sex discrimination against women -- Kenya. Women -- Kenya -- Economic conditions. Marital property Married women -- Economic conditions Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. Right of property Sex discrimination against women Women -- Economic conditions Kenya
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12397669
Related Items:	Print version: "Once you get out, you lose everything": women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya.

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya Kenya: "Once you get out, you lose everything"
Other authors / contributors:	Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body. International Federation of Women Lawyers. Kenya Chapter, issuing body.
ISBN:	9781623138332 1623138337
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Co-published with FIDA-Kenya. "June 2020"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu, researcher on women and land in the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch"--Page 64. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 30, 2020)
Summary:	"... documents how the 2013 Matrimonial Property Act, which recognized that married women have the same rights as married men, and other legal reforms are undermined in practice"--Publisher website.
Other form:	Print version: "Once you get out, you lose everything": women and matrimonial property rights in Kenya. [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, 2020.

Description
Summary:	Key recommendations -- Methodology -- Background to the 2013 Matrimonial Property Act -- Legal and judicial barriers to equitable property distribution -- Barriers to courts and access to justice -- Applicable regional and international standards -- Recommendations."Kenya has come a long way in recognizing equality between married women and married men, and in addressing equal property rights through extensive legal reforms. But, for all the relative progress its laws represent on paper, challenges in implementation abound, leaving many women without the protection of the law to claim their matrimonial property. [This report] documents the limits of these legal protections. The report shows how a confluence of ambiguous and antiquated laws, and discriminatory social and cultural norms undermine equal rights to matrimonial property for married, divorced, separated, and widowed women in Kakamega and Kilifi counties."--Back cover
Item Description:	Co-published with FIDA-Kenya. "June 2020"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu, researcher on women and land in the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch"--Page 64.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (64 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781623138332 1623138337